122 years ago today, August 19, 1903 (June 27, 1903, lunar calendar), Shao Jun, one of the pioneers of forest management in China, was born. Shao Jun (1903-1977), also known as Weikun, was one of the pioneers of forest management in China. He has taught forest management and other courses in many forestry colleges and universities. He has long been engaged in research and practice on forest cutting and renewal, secondary forest transformation and utilization, and middle-aged forest tending. He has put forward many academic arguments and implemented them during his tenure as forestry leader in Heilongjiang Province, making important contributions to the development of Heilongjiang forestry. Shao Jun was born on August 19, 1903 in Gaojing Town, Yixing County, Jiangsu Province (now Yixing City) in a family of poetry and calligraphy. His father, Shao Fuzhou, was a scholar in the former Qing Dynasty. Shao Jun lost his father at the age of 3 and entered a private school for elementary education at the age of 9. In 1917, he was admitted to the Forestry Department of the First Agricultural School of Jiangsu Province in Nanjing City. In 1923, he was admitted to the Forestry Department of the Department of Agriculture of Hokkaido Imperial University (now Hokkaido University) in Japan. In 1926, he was transferred to the Forestry Research Institute to study for graduate students and returned to China the following year. After returning home, he worked as a lecturer in the Forestry Department of Beijing Agricultural University. Soon he went to Nanjing to serve as an educational forest technician in Jiangsu Province. In 1928, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture, Zhejiang University. In 1933, he served as a lecturer at Wuxi Jiangsu Provincial College of Education. In 1934, he was hired by Baoding Hebei Provincial Agricultural College and served as professor and director of the Forestry Department. Later, he went to Chengdu to serve as a professor in the Department of Forestry at the Agricultural College of Sichuan University, and concurrently served as a professor in the Department of Forestry at the Agricultural College of Chongqing Central University. In 1941, he was appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chongqing National Government and served as the director of the Minjiang Forest Management Office of Lifan (now Li County). In 1945, he served as a professor at the School of Agriculture, Zhejiang University. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the restoration of the Forestry Department of the School of Agriculture of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. In 1950, entrusted by the Ministry of Forestry and Reclamation, a forestry specialization was added to the Forestry Department of the School of Agriculture, Zhejiang University, and he served as the director of the Forestry Department. In 1954, the textbook "Forest Management" was published. Since 1954, he has served as deputy director of the Forestry Department of Heilongjiang Province. 1960-1964 In 1999, he served concurrently as the vice president of the Forestry Research Institute of Heilongjiang Province. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Shao Jun was deprived of his right to work and was forced to retire from his job in 1969. He died of illness in Harbin City on December 18, 1977.